Cheiracanthiidae  Wagner, 1887 / Cheiracanthium  C. L. Koch, 1839   33 species

Cheiracanthium annulipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

Description
Male

Prosoma yellowish, eye field and chelicerae strongly darkened. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma yellowish red-brown, dorsum with red-brown markings.

Body length male: 4.3 mm
Female

Prosoma yellow, sparsely covered with greyish yellow hairs. Sternum yellow, a marginal row of blackish red-brown spots. Legs yellow, with a broken red-brown ring at each joint. Opisthosoma dark yellow, dorsum and venter with whitish yellow and black spots and markings.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Canary Is., Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel
Phenology
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Distribution List
Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Portugal   (Wunderlich, 2012b; Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019; Barrientos et al., 2017; Urones, 2024a) ||| Tunisia   (Urones, 2024a) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Moya J, García-Sarrión R, Uribarri I, Melic A, Prieto C E, Moraza M L, Zaragoza J A (2017) Arácnidos del Parque Natural de Cabo de Gata-Níjar (Almería, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 30: 107-138 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Pickard-Cambridge O (1872) General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40: 212-354 pdf

Urones C (2024a) Redescripción de Cheiracanthium annulipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 (Araneae, Cheiracanthiidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 44: 61-70 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (2012b) Few rare and a new species of spiders (Araneae) from Portugal, with resurrection of the genus Chiracanthops Mello-Leitao 1942 (Clubionidae: Eutichurinae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 8: 183-191 pdf

Wunderlich J (2022) Some spiders (Araneae) of the Western Palearctic. Beiträge zur Araneologie 15: 4-78, 199 pdf

Updates
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